At the 2016 ITTF Slovenia Open, Feng Tianwei defeated South Korea's Olympic singles main player Tian Zhixi 4-2 to win the women's singles championship. As if the plot has come a big turn. Because at the Croatia Open not long ago, Feng Tianwei's women's singles lost to the Japanese amateur Maria Matsuzawa 3-4 in the second round, and was described by some domestic media as losing to the Japanese "amateur" player.
In fact, regardless of the record of these two Opens, Feng Tianwei is still one of the main "hostile" goals of the National Table Tennis Women's Team preparing for the Rio Olympics. But many golfers don't understand. Looking back at Feng Tianwei's growth history, she was not even a player in the national first team. Why did she improve so rapidly after joining Singapore. Is the level of Singapore’s coaches better than that of national table tennis? Or is the national table tennis coach lacking "Bo Le"? "Ping Pong" magazine will give you an analysis:
Feng Tianwei started playing at the age of 5, and started to get the first place in Harbin at the age of 7. First in Heilongjiang Province. In 1997, Feng Tianwei, who was only 11 years old, was exceptionally admitted to the Heilongjiang Sports School and trained with players who were four or five years older than him. Feng Tianwei won the women's singles champion of the National Youth Championship in 2002 and was selected for the national youth team in the same year. After entered the second national team, her results have been good. Just as she confidently attacked the first team, she ran into trouble: for the first time the first and second teams were promoted to the top 10, Feng Tianwei ranked 11th, and first The team passed by. Soon after, Feng Tianwei was diagnosed with myocarditis.
From this description, you may find that Feng Tianwei is indeed a great horse, and in that year, it was not buried. It’s just that everyone needs to understand that who can enter the second national team, which one is not Chollima? The promotion and promotion of the first and second national teams is based on the principles of openness, fairness and fairness. Failure to enter the top ten shows that she was lacking in technical and tactical skills at the time. After the diagnosis of myocarditis, it was indeed God who made a small joke with her. But even now, the national table tennis coaching staff should not suffer from the lack of "Bo Le".
So, after joining the Singapore Table Tennis Association, Feng Tianwei's takeoff in the international table tennis world is naturally attributed to Singapore’s competent coach? This statement is naturally true, because behind every athlete’s success, the coach’s contribution is indispensable . However, Feng Tianwei once said in an interview with "Ping Pong" magazine that the training conditions, software and hardware of table tennis in Singapore are far from those of national table tennis, and there is even a certain gap between the high-level provincial teams. Therefore, it seems that this is not the decisive factor for her to defeat the national table tennis players.
A professional domestic coach who did not want to be named believes that Feng Tianwei's advantage over the national table tennis players in the competition lies not in skills and tactics, but in psychology. Take the national team's promotion and relegation competition for example, a game determines whether a player's sports life will have an inflection point, let alone an international competition. The psychological pressure on the national table tennis players can be imagined. As for Feng Tianwei, it is good to win the game, and there is no way out of losing. Just like the two Opens, winning and losing, at least in the Singapore media circle, is not like the domestic media, which will sing bad for a while and praise it for a while. Such a public opinion environment at least relieved Feng Tianwei's psychological external pressure. The psychological change of
has a huge impact on the players in international competitions. For Feng Tianwei, who has no obvious technical shortcomings but has a small psychological burden, he has a certain advantage. For the Rio Olympics that opened in August, for Feng Tianwei and foreign players like her, gold, silver and bronze medals are a victory! Putting aside distracting thoughts "desperately" is enough, but for the national table tennis players, only the gold medal is "the most glorious", and more importantly, losing the gold medal becomes a "sinner"! Therefore, if the national table tennis players lose the gold medal, the reason is not because they lost to Feng Tianwei, but because they did not have a "big heart" and lost in an external environment where they could not afford to lose.
